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8 convicted for unfair
means in exams CHANDIGARH, Feb 24 — As many as eight students have been shown the doors by Panjab University following their conviction for using unfair means in the annual examinations. Interestingly, a girl student of BA (I), Barinder Jeet Kaur, and Mandeep Singh, also a first-year student, have been found guilty of impersonating in the examination. Highly placed sources confirmed that the cases will come up for a final decision in the forthcoming Syndicate meeting later this month. The list being presented for Syndicate approval this time has only students of the first year. The list has the names of Kuldip Singh, Gurwinder Singh, Gurpreet Singh, Tejwinder Singh, Kamaljeet Kaur and Manpreet Singh, besides the candidates found guilty on ground of impersonation. Punishment for a majority of candidates found guilty is debarment from university examinations for a period of five years. In the case of Kamaljeet Kaur the proposed period of punishment is September, 1999, to April, 2004. The cases come under Regulation 20 of the PU Volume II Calendar. It had been argued that generally teachers in large numbers abstained from examination duties. As a consequence the university had to make arrangements involving the non-teaching staff. This factor definitely was ''a moral encouragement'' for students to cheat, a student said. The university has decided to have two committees instead of the current provision of one committee. One of the new committees comprises Principal Joginder Singh, Mr B.S. Bajwa and Mr S.S. Virdi. The other committee consists of Principal V.P. Arora, Principal D.L. Anand and Dr Mukesh Arora. A section of the Syndicate had expressed reservations against the constitution of two committees at its last meeting. Dr R.D. Anand and Prof Charanjit Chawla had walked out of the hall. It has been recorded that "the Vice-Chancellor said that he took strong exception to the remarks of Prof R.D. Anand. There was a basic principle that when a person was holding the floor, no one could intervene. Prof Anand's interjection was improper. Mrs Sneh Mahajan, Principal of the MCM DAV College also pointed out that only one committee was enough. A student said: ''I do not know the internal set-up. However, the move for having two committees instead of one to a layman would only mean that cases of cheating had increased. If not, it would only mean that the earlier committee was hard-pressed in working". Mr Kehar Singh, a member
of the earlier committee, underlined the necessity for
disposing of these ''doubtful'' cases within a fixed
timeframe to save academic loss for students in measures
of time. "I hope the change in guard keeps the time
factor to aid students in mind. One committee was
enough," he remarked. |
Campus
Beat CHANDIGARH, Feb 24 — The candidates for the common entrance test (CET) to be conducted by Panjab University, Chandigarh, on May 19 and 20, 2000, are advised to use black ballpoint pen for signatures as well as mailing addresses and HB pencil for the columns on the OMR application forms. The candidates are also required to write serial number of the application form on the envelope meant for mailing/submitting it to the university, an official press note said today. Seminar: The Department of English, Panjab University, will organise a two-day seminar on "locating Indian literature" in the ICSSR complex, PU, on February 25 and 26. Prominent Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu and English writers, including Krishna Sobti, Gurdial Singh, Balraj Komal and Namwar Singh, will participate in the seminar. The seminar would address relationship between the Indian languages and that of English literature, Indian writing in English and the translations into English of various regional literatures. Science Day: Panjab University will celebrate Science Day from February 26 to 28. The programmes are being sponsored by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, the Chandigarh Chapters of the INSA and the ISCA and the Department of Science and Technology, Chandigarh Adminis- tration. Many contests will also be held on the occasion, including a paper-reading contest for various categories, a science quiz competition, a debate (junior and senior levels), a poster-making competition, an essay competition and a wall magazine competition. National Science Day is observed in India to commemorate the award of Nobel prize to Sir C.V. Raman. The Department of Geology will organise open house from February 26 to 28 as part of the National Science Day celebrations. The museum of natural history of the department will be open to public, and minerals, rocks and fossils will be on display. Geoscientists will be available to answer the queries of visitors. Blood camp:
The Panjab University Non-Teaching Employees Federation
will organise a blood donation camp in front of the
Administrative Office building of the university
tomorrow. The camp is sponsored by Auto Cop and the State
Bank of India, PU branch. |
Map quiz for students CHANDIGARH, Feb 24 — As part of the ongoing celebrations of the National Science Day-2000, a map quiz for students of classes IX to XII from various schools of the city was organised this morning by the North Western Circle, Survey of India, Sector 32, at its office premises. A total of 41 teams, which comprised three students each, participated in the contest. Later a ‘Treasure Hunt through Map’ was also organised for the geography teachers of various private and government schools, in which an extensive and an interesting map reading exercise was involved in locating the hidden treasure. The excited bunch of teachers participating in this contest could in fact be seen requesting for more such innovative exercises on map reading. According to Brig K S Khatri, Director, North Western Circle, prizes to the students and the teachers would be awarded on February 28 at 10am at the Survey of India office, Sector 32. The prize distribution would coincide with a cycle expedition to be held on the same day, from the same premises. The winners of the map quiz are as follows: Ankur Luthra, Arshdeep Bahga and Gaurav Mittal — St Kabir Public School, Sector 26 (1); Ankit Gupta, Sachit Grover and Sahil Mohan Bansal — St Kabir Public School, Sector 26 (2); Kenny, Shveta Gupta and Amandeep Singla, St Stephan’s School, Sector 45 (3) The winners of Map Reading contest: Ms Lily Anand, St Kabir
Public School, Sector 26 (1); Ms Surjeet Jodha, St
Stephan School, Sector 45; Ms Akwinder, Govt Model Senior
Secondary School, Sector 33. |
Rally by
college employees CHANDIGARH, Feb 24
— Non-teaching employees of Shri Gobind Singh
College, the SGGS College of Pharmacy, the SGGS
Collegiate Public School and the GGS College for Women,
Sector 26, held a rally at the gate of the SGGS College
on Tuesday under the banner of the SGGS College of
Non-Teaching Employees Union for the implementation of
their long-pending demands, which include payment of
arrears of pay revision with effect from January 1, 1996,
employment on compassionate ground to the families
members of the employees who have died while in service
and gratuity to the retired employees. |
Teachers
go on mass leave CHANDIGARH, Feb 24 — On a call of the Panjab University Teachers Association, teachers went on mass casual leave today. The teaching work virtually came to a halt. The protest leave was taken against insensitive and indifferent attitude shown by the administration towards the long-pending demands. The PUTA President, Prof P.P. Arya, said that nearly all teachers had shown brotherhood. There were only a marginal number of teachers who did not comply with the association's plan. A few teachers did take the classes. However, they showed their protest by applying for casual leave. Dr Harjinder Laltu, Secretary, said that a large section of the teachers, who were yet on probation, also pressed their stand to support the cause of PUTA. Today was the fourth day of the protest week. Professor Arya will go on fast tomorrow. Dr R.D. Anand, a senior fellow, has decided to join the protest. Teachers are protesting against the non-implementation of a viable pension scheme which has been pending for the past 10 years approximately. PUTA is also protesting that the career advancement scheme applications had not yet been sent to the referees by the university.
Kids synchronise with piano notes CHANDIGARH, Feb 24 — The opening day of the musical mornings at Strawberry Fields Kindergarten in Sector 24, today was a celebration of all things innocent, fresh and exciting in the growing pre-schoolers’ life. Children of Lower K.G. sang delightful songs about their environment, relationships and daily experiences to the accompanying notes of the piano played by Sheila Bhasin, their music teacher. It was an extension of their daily music lessons. The lively backdrop with the zoo theme painted by the teachers was neither flashy nor ostentatious. The four-year-olds were confident, happy and articulate as they spoke of the “the wise man,” “little hands and feet”, “the clown”, and many such wonderful facets of life. They were quick to take their cues and synchronise with the piano notes. Their natural expression
confirmed that music has the power to brighten the
dullest of the days and the gloomiest of spirits. One
could see that the children sang their way to their
parent’s hearts. |
Hike in
honorarium sought CHANDIGARH, Feb 24 — A meeting of the Central Polytechnic Teachers Welfare Association was held here yesterday with teachers demanding enhancement of rates of honorarium for holding extra classes. The guest faculty was
being paid at a rate of Rs 225 per hour. The college
teachers, also worked the same and in fact, over worked,
and deserved an enhancement. The staff in a press release
also “condemned the behaviour of the Director of
Technical Education towards their demands.” Headmaster honoured for educating
poor CHANDIGARH, Feb 24 — The management of Gurdwara Sahibzada Zorawar Singh and Fateh Singh Peer Colony, Palsora, honoured Mr Bahadur Singh, Headmaster, Government High School, Sector 40, last night in a kirtan darbar organised to celebrate the 300th birthday anniversary of Khalsa. He was honoured for the
free education given by the school for the poor students
of the labour colony of Palsora. |
MCM DAV
wins debate competition CHANDIGARH, Feb 24 — The team of MCM DAV College, Sector 36, won the trophy in inter-college debate competition on “Woman of the New Millennium is Happier than her Predecessor”. The debate was organised by NSS unit of the college here today in collaboration with State Bank of India. Mr. Prabhakar Sharma, Chief General Manager of SBI, Chandigarh circle, was the chief guest on the occasion, while Mr C.L. Narang, Director of NSS, Panjab University, presided over the function. Jasneet from the host college won the first prize for her best individual performance in the debate, while the second prize went to Harleen of Dev Samaj College for Women. Pooja from SD College won the third prize. Participating in the debate, both sides, which were speaking for the motion or opposing it, argued strongly in their favour. The moot point was that what is happiness? And can material comforts fetch mental satisfaction? While favouring the motion, speakers stressed that woman in this millennium was happier because everything was at her disposal and she had realised her self. “Marriage is no longer a contract today. It is a partnership and wife is exercising equal status and rights in the family”, pointed out a speaker. It was pointed out that women were involved in every profession today. One of the speakers stated that things had been changing in favour of women but reminded that the change was never painless. Jasneet, who got the first prize, said women of the new generation were freely taking part in decision-making processes in every sphere of life. Minu maintained that the present is good and the future will be better . She said that new discoveries had made the life very easy and these things had become a bliss for women. She affirmed that this was the age of women empowerment. Another speaker observed that today’s women were smart, savvy, confident, balanced and free. Opponents claimed that the same women, same society and same exploitation existed even now. Neha contended that even women of the new millennium were ambitious and struggling to get freedom. She was still the beast of burden. She disagreed with the point that financial independence was real freedom. “Woman is losing her health and her spiritual emotions are being hurt”, she lamented. Comparing the present
lot with the woman of ancient and Vedic era, Rubi held
that the condition of women was much better during the
good old days. She claimed women were still, abused and
exploited. Commenting on women reforms, Neha noted that a
majority of them were living like dummies of their male
guardians. Kamal Sharma affirmed that today’s
materialism had forced the woman to feel happy, but in
reality it was not so. He said happiness is a state of
mind and it could not be attained forcibly. Pooja stated
that even today different scales were adopted for a girl
child in our society. |
Rose Garden stalls case hearing
today CHANDIGARH, Feb 24 — The suit challenging the allotment of stalls within a radius of 200 metres from the “two entrances of the Rose Garden” during the Festival of Gardens continued today with the defendants seeking the dismissal of the stay application and the plaintiffs asking for the appointment of a local commissioner. The two applications will come up before a city court for further hearing tomorrow. Seeking the dismissal of the stay application with costs, the UT Administration and other defendants had earlier stated that the stalls were “away at a distance of more than 200 metres from the two entrance gates of the Rose Garden”. In the written reply, the defendants added that irreparable loss would not be “caused to plaintiffs or to the general public as the Administration had taken adequate measures”. Counsel for the plaintiffs — Lawyers for Social Reforms and City resident Sandeep Kumar — on the other hand stated that personal verification had revealed the putting up of stalls within the 200 metres radius”. Asking for the appointment of a local commissioner “at the expense of the plaintiffs”, the counsel stated that the commissioner would be able to “find out the factual position with regard to the putting up of the stalls”. The plaintiffs had earlier stated that “large-scale encroachment and obstruction” during the festival was a cause of “inconvenience and harassment to the visitors”. Counsel had also sought directions to the defendants for removing obstructions by hawkers and vendors from the public passage and the entrance. In the suit against the UT Administration, the Deputy Commissioner, the Subdivisional Magistrate and the “Mela Officer”, counsel had added that the general public, too, “would suffer irreparable loss” if the defendants were not restrained from allocating the stalls “through the draw of lots”. Claiming the occurrence of a stampede due to obstructions at the Garden’s entrance during the festival last year, counsel had stated that the plaintiff, too, was manhandled by some stall owners at the gate. He had added that the
defendants advertised for the allocation of stalls
despite a representation from the plaintiffs requesting
them to “ensure the safety and security of the
visitors by not auctioning the stalls within a radius of
200 metres”.
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Court seeks report on bribery
case CHANDIGARH, Feb 24 — Directing the Station House Officer of the Sector 17 police station to "only investigate the case" of alleged demand of bribe by two employees of the Electricity Department, UT Additional District and Sessions Judge, Mr S.S. Lamba, today asked him to "send the report by March 11". Accusing the two employees, P.P. Singh and Lakhwinder Singh, of cheating and committing a criminal breach of the trust, the plaintiff, Mr D.S. Rajput, stated that Rs 10,000 was demanded by the accused for the restoration of electricity. In a complaint seeking
directions to the SHO for lodging the first information
report against the two under the Prevention of Corruption
Act along with Sections 420, 406, 197, 199, 471, 511,
477-A, 109 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code, the
plaintiff alleged that the accused "intentionally
and wilfully did not install the electricity meter".
He added that the matter was reported to the police but
the FIR was not registered. He further added that the
arrest and interrogation of the accused was essential
"so that the accused cannot destroy the
record.” |
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